Category: Weather
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Volcanoes and High Seas
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments on the blanket! After the dazedness that comes right after finishing a big project, I am feeling very pleased. I have another FO too, and I am absolutely dying to show you, but I can’t…because it’s a Christmas gift. I know–Christmas is eons away. It certainly feels like…
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Death Pollen
While the rest of the country gets snowed on, Phoenix is being blanketed in drifts of big yellow pollen from the mesquite trees. Sure, it looks pretty, but everyone is terribly allergic to it. I am terribly allergic to it: today my head feels like it’s going to explode, my throat is scratchy, and my…
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Four Minus Two Is Not Two
Wow…Stephanie Pearl-McPhee did remember to look up my blog, and she didn’t just like the post, she *loved* it. And so many of you did, too. I am chuffed and overwhelmed by this response. I never expected feedback of that magnitude or intensity, and I certainly never intended to make readers cry. Heck, somebody clicking…
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Just No
It is getting hot in Phoenix. We hardly had any winter, and now the skies are bright, birds are chirping, and temperatures are rising to 90 F. At this rate, we will be staring down summer before March arrives. Come, everyone. Come and bring your cold, your dark, your sleet and snow. We haven’t done…
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All My Wool Socks Are in Phoenix
And my feet are in Philadelphia attending the American Library Association’s Midwinter conference. Thank gawd I have my mittens.
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Sea Wolf and Worsted
The weather in Arizona is finally, finally, finally turning. Mornings are chilly, evenings are cool, and daytime highs are below 90º. This is the time of year when Sea Wolf‘s music becomes my soundtrack and I start craving sweaters knit in worsted-weight yarns. (if you live somewhere where October means highs in the 60ºs or…
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Day
Today dawned dark and cloudy. I am so excited: the forecast high is 73º. After weeks of pretending that highs in the 90s are fall, we may get some real fall. I did not fully appreciate changes in the weather when I lived in Illinois. There, it’s really rare to have exactly the same weather…
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Back to School, Ring the Bell
The White Stripes’ “We’re Going to Be Friends” has always been my soundtrack for the return to fall, and school, and (in my mind) cooler weather. The mornings are cool where I live, but the monsoon is not done yet (cross your fingers we get rain tonight), and to remind us summer’s not properly over…
Anti-Quotidian 